More campers get stranded in the woods and come face to face with a killer in a clown mask. And… well… that’s about it for the plot. No one set out to reinvent the wheel this time out, which is good news or bad news, depending on how you look at it. On one hand, it’s a solid, yet unspectacular slasher. On the other, you can say that about a hundred or so other movies on Tubi.
It Kills finds veteran Z-grade director Mark (Cocaine Shark) Polonia returning to the Camp Blood fold. Sure, it’s not quite as good as his Camp Blood: First Slaughter, but at least it feels like an actual movie, which is more than I can say for the Dustin Ferguson directed entries in the franchise. While I can’t say it’s effective, I think it's nice that Polonia wears his influences on his sleeve so brazenly as there are many touches straight out of the Friday the 13th franchise. One character is in a wheelchair like in Part 2, there’s a hiker who is searching the woods for a missing relative (shades of Part 4), the road flare death is a direct homage to Part 5, and the finale owes a major debt to Part 4. The music sounds quite similar to John Carpenter’s Halloween score as well.
The bulk of the kills this time out are rather interchangeable and unmemorable. There are lots of machetes to the stomachs and hands getting cut off in this one. The gore is weak too. The guts in one scene look like they could be used to create a balloon animal, which is good for an unintentional laugh. At least the cast has a little more personality this time around, which is appreciated, especially considering the rest of the picture is by the numbers for the most part.
AKA: It Kills. AKA: Camp Blood 7: It Kills.
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